When I tried searching, my first search had no results. My refined search also had no results.Terms: "Bitcoin rank" "Wealthy Elite"

I ended up entering the (second) search string into Google appending "site:bitcointalk.org" to the end.

Somebody on the #bitcoin IRC chat commented:

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<YouIsCat> Congratulations on feeding the beast.<YouIsCat> Did you enjoy being wiretapped in the NSA terminal called "Google"?

Seen in that light, the non-working search is actually a security risk.

Edit: Obviously the timer was added after the search function was used to DDOS the forum. Perhaps making searches more "burstable" would help:-You are allowed 1 search every 5 seconds -- logic fail?-You are allowed 2 searches every 20 seconds-You are allowed 3 searches every minute -- dupe-You are allowed 4 searches every 5 minutes